Quotes About Fear

I mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

you must do what you fear most if you want to overcome the fear.

In our experience, one of the scariest snakes in the room is the fear of failure, which manifests itself in such ways as fear of being judged, fear of getting started, fear of the unknown. And while much has been said about fear of failure, it still is the single biggest obstacle people face to creative success.

The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

Picture the poor Arab private. He knows no one in his unit gives a shit about him; after all, he doesn't give a shit about any of them, either. They're not family. What happens when that private is placed in the loneliest position in the world, the modern battlefield? He runs at the first sign things are going badly. (He'll be fine as long as they are going well, though. Note: things rarely go well.)

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

On the whole, I try to avoid confrontations with deadly snakes.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

Most things I worry about never happen anyway.

most things I worry 'bout never happen anyway

Every guy liked to think that his demons were meaner and crazier than anybody else's.

He doesn't hate you, Thomas, he admires you. And we're often frightened and jealous of what we admire.

All the doors were open, all the faces were frightened; one felt that Death was there.

Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ... thus armoured, he watches and waits and studies the world meticulously, hunting the world for prey ... Prey not in the sense of devouring or murder, Rose said, But prey in the sense of hunting for sore truths within another human heart.

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end

Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?

We "overvalue performance," as one psychologist put it, "and undervalue the self." We're afraid of being just okay at things. This is a trap. "For to permit yourself to do only that which you're good at," writes the legal scholar Tim Wu, "is to be trapped in a cage whose bars are not steel but self-judgment.

But then I'm one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.